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...What man wore a robe to a Nieman-Marcus fashion show? See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, To a King's Taste...
...wives, headed for Texas. He was met at the airport near Dallas in a funeral director's Cadillac limousine (Dallas, unaccountably, could not produce a proper car from any other source), toured a General Motors plant in nearby Arlington. He took in a fashion show at Neiman-Marcus' department store, and best of all, got a good taste of cowboy life at the famed King Ranch, where the land and the vast expanses seemed more like home than granite-blocked Washington or gleaming Dallas. There, in five-gallon hat and astride a quarter horse, he got a close...
Another phase of U.S. education that came under attack last week was the training program for the Ph.D. After long study, the deans of four graduate schools-Jacques Barzun of Columbia, John Petersen Elder of Harvard, Marcus Hobbs of Duke and Andrew Robertson Gordon of the University of Toronto-"ruefully" concluded that getting...
...added theaters to his chain, Russian-born L. B. Mayer soon ran out of his kind of films. In 1918 he opened a studio to supply his own demands. Six years later, prodded by Theater Owner Marcus Loew, he merged his two companies with Producer Sam Goldwyn's studios to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The ex-junkman confidently made himself production chief. With Irving Thalberg, his brilliant assistant (and the model for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon), Mayer set about remaking the motion-picture industry...
What was going on, as everyone else in Dallas knew, was probably the biggest birthday party ever attempted by any U.S. department store. All Dallas was swept into the act. For Neiman-Marcus' "French Fortnight," the art museum displayed 32 Toulouse-Lautrecs, and the local Lions, Kiwanians and Y.M.C.A. swooped down on visiting French dignitaries for a round of lunches and speeches. France's most sought-after artist, Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27, 1956), won the city by sporting a giant Stetson; Authors Pierre Daninos (The Notebooks of Major Thompson) and Louise de Vilmorin were lionized at dinner...